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Would its new leader be a war hero and self-appointed champion of democracy or would power pass dynastically from father to son? Like her French prototype, Elizabeth would presumably have remained close to her brother, who nevertheless would sooner or later have ordered her into some politically or dynastically advantageous marriage - advantageous for him, that is. In rewriting Ariosto and Tasso (as well as Homer and Vergil), Spenser conflates the traditionally epic themes of honor and glory with romantic ones, so that glorious or dynastically fruitful love becomes the goal of this true "epic romance. |
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